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Saturday, 30 July 2016

Koele Triple Baked Coconut Chips - Lemon and Chilli

More coconut reviews
again today. I am trying to buy other snacks I swear. I wasn’t really
sure what to expect from these coconut chips by Koele. I knew they would
be a little like the strips of coconut but
was interested to see if the addition of a lemon and chilli flavouring
would actually deliver that savoury crisp feeling. For a small 30g bag
at 130 calories, it feels huge and there are loads in here. I genuinely
can’t believe they are 130 calories. Predominantly
this is coconut that is tripled baked along the seasoning and coating.
It’s gluten free, natural and free of preservatives.

Opening the bag you
get a good hit of aroma with lots of spiciness and a good savoury hit.
The pieces are very small flakes, which are very thin and I was a little
worried because of their thinness they would
just be soft and flaky.

But surprisingly
these are really crunchy. They have a good crunch in the mouth, feel
very satisfying and actually do deliver that crisp sensation to a
certain extent. If I wasn’t looking at them as I put them
in my mouth, I could very easily convince myself I was eating shards of
crisps. The flavouring is spot on – it’s really punchy and strong
flavoured. I’ve found on a lot of these types of products (especially
popcorn) the coating is really sporadic and not
evenly coated but that’s not the case here. Every piece was bursting
with flavour and it actually delivers on the taste it promises.

The lemon and chilli
seasoning is actually fairly spicy with a nice, mild heat. Combined with
the more subtle lemon it makes for a nice sweet, tangy, spice
sensation. It also works very well with the natural
coconut tropical taste and whilst there is the potential for this to go
too sweet, it stays nice and savoury and salty.

I wasn’t expecting a
lot from these but they were really nice. They actually remind me a
little of all those lentil crisps or wholegrain waves out in the shops
at the moment with a nice light texture with a
nice crunch and a good flavour hit.